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Collection Title

CL 20 Hardin Collection

Creator

Booth Library

Processed By

Rachel Dworkin

Date Completed:

5/08/2008

Provenance:

The items in this collection were donated to the Booth Library in 1992 by the Dewitt Historical Society of Tompkins County.

Martin D. Hardin Jr.-Martin Hardin Jr. was ordained as a minister by the Presbytery of Geneva, NY on June 7, 1931. In 1938, he became the minister of the First Presbyterian Church of Elmira, NY. In June of 1944, he was commissioned as a lieutenant in the Army as part of the chaplain corps. From 1944 until the end of the war Chaplain Hardin served at the 107th Station Hospital in the Philippines. After the war, he returned to his duties at the First Presbyterian Church of Elmira while simultaneously serving in the Army Reserves where he was in charge of funeral services at the Woodlawn National Cemetery in Elmira.

Scope:

The Harding Collection consists of Martin D. Hardin Jr.'s wartime correspondence as well as other assorted documents. The bulk of the collection consists of letters written and received by Hardin while he served as a chaplain at the 107th Station Hospital in the Philippines from 1944 to 1945.

Notes:

CL 20 shares a box with CL 24.

Extent

.25 linear feet

Date Span

1944-1948

Abstract

This collection contains documents related to Reverend Martin D. Hardin's service as a chaplain during WWII.